Breastmilk

Directed by Ifeyinwa Arinze

Length: 
est. 17
Producers: Gabriela Azevedo, Chioma Onyenwe, Ifeyinwa Arinze
Editor:

 Ifeyinwa Arinze
Cinematographer:

 Dominica Eriksen
Sound Designer:

 TBD

When a new Nigerian mother realizes that her inability to lactate might be connected to unresolved tension in her marriage, she must confront her past in order to support her newborn.

Graduate Film

iua206@nyu.edu

Ifeyinwa Arinze is a neuroscientist-turned-filmmaker from Nigeria and is currently based in New York City. Her work evokes intimate portrayals of Black women and girls grounded in generosity and care. Ifeyinwa has received support from institutions such as BAFTA, NYFA, Video Consortium and NYWIFT. She is also an alum of the 2023 Film at Lincoln Center Artist Academy and UNIONDOCS’s 2023 Research and Development Documentary Lab. Her short films have screened at the Film at Lincoln Center with the New York African Film Festival, as well as Aspen ShortFest, Palm Springs, BlackStar, Bushwick and the TIDE Film Festival. Ifeyinwa is developing her debut feature film SCRUPLES, which is set in the volatile world of an all-girls Nigerian boarding school. It was a finalist of the 2023 SFFILM RANIN grant. Ifeyinwa is currently a thesis MFA candidate in the Graduate Film program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.